Loopand Notiondo away with the concept of individual documents in favor of a “flexible canvas.”
Instead, you drop in a portable “component” right on your canvas.
These components, like informational Legos, stay in sync and can be reused in different contexts.
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And of course, you’re free to share everything.
“I believe Loop will make a large mark in this space.”
But collaborative spaces are hot right now and are the future of working on computers.
And it’s pretty wild.
Yes, I described a Microsoft app as “wild.”
For instance, say you’re in a message thread.
And when that table scrolls off the top of the timeline, like in Slack?
Old Metaphors
Many of us are comfortable with the file-and-folder metaphor.
It’s based on a real-world concepta filing cabinetand it’s been around for a while.
Then Google Docs came along and put those individual documents in the cloud.
But that’s still the old file-and-folder paradigm.
The next stage was introduced by Notion.
It’s all just there and can be rearranged as easily as dragging blocks of text around a page.
Only anything on that desk can appear on another desk or another person’s desk.
We hop from messages to notes to web pages and calendars.
What Notion and Loop do is to bring these all into one space.
They’re also interoperable with other apps.
In Notion, for instance, you could embed Google Docs, Trello boards, and more.
This lets you pick the tools you need while still having everything organized in one space.
